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“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy”

After hearing the hiss and click of the last hibernation tank as it pressurizes and seals in his shipmates, Harrison Daniels quietly lifts his lid and makes sure everyone is frozen in their pod…

In 31 years when they finally reach the asteroid belt they’ll wake up, but for now the coast is clear.  He has the room to himself.

As there’s no oxygen being pumped into this part of the ship (since everyone is meant to be in their tank, frozen for the journey), Harrison quickly grabs a spare oxygen mask and climbs up onto the round windowsill overlooking the galaxy.

He’s not sure why he snuck out of his tank, but as he watches the distant field of stars stream by as the mining ship rockets along at lightspeed, he’s glad he did.

His mind struggles to comprehend the enormous scope of the galaxy stretched out before him, and while he feels a deep connection to it all, it also leaves him feeling totally insignificant.  His problems, his worries… they couldn’t matter.

Thinking back, Harrison realizes he’s never actually been alone his entire life.  Family, spouses, friends… and in 31 years when they reach the belt, he’ll never have a moment to himself.  All he has is this, right now.

He tells himself that he has to do this again, somehow… for longer than just a few hours.  It’s nice.

But, he has responsibilities still, and everyone will notice if they arrive at the asteroid belt and he’s the only one who has aged the 31 years (not to mention, he has no food— the hibernation tank is meant to nourish him as as they travel).

Taking one last long look out the window, Harrison gets back into his tank, and goes to sleep.

Originally Posted 10/10/2012

(A very special thanks to Kyle Harter for giffing this for me!)

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“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy”

After hearing the hiss and click of the last hibernation tank as it pressurizes and seals in his shipmates, Harrison Daniels quietly lifts his lid and makes sure everyone is frozen in their pod…

In 31 years when they finally reach the asteroid belt they’ll wake up, but for now the coast is clear.  He has the room to himself.

As there’s no oxygen being pumped into this part of the ship (since everyone is meant to be in their tank, frozen for the journey), Harrison quickly grabs a spare oxygen mask and climbs up onto the round windowsill overlooking the galaxy.

He’s not sure why he snuck out of his tank, but as he watches the distant field of stars stream by as the mining ship rockets along at lightspeed, he’s glad he did.

His mind struggles to comprehend the enormous scope of the galaxy stretched out before him, and while he feels a deep connection to it all, it also leaves him feeling totally insignificant.  His problems, his worries… they couldn’t matter.

Thinking back, Harrison realizes he’s never actually been alone his entire life.  Family, spouses, friends… and in 31 years when they reach the belt, he’ll never have a moment to himself.  All he has is this, right now.

He tells himself that he has to do this again, somehow… for longer than just a few hours.  It’s nice.

But, he has responsibilities still, and everyone will notice if they arrive at the asteroid belt and he’s the only one who has aged the 31 years (not to mention, he has no food— the hibernation tank is meant to nourish him as as they travel).

Taking one last long look out the window, Harrison gets back into his tank, and goes to sleep.

Posted 10/10/2012

(A very special thanks to Kyle Harter for giffing this for me!)

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“Thoughts on the Train”

Halfway through the 14 hour train ride from his parent’s home on Earth to his boarding school a few star systems over, Caleb McDaniels looks up from the homework he was meant to do over his winter break and finds himself getting lost in the sea of stars out the window.

Having traveled this route back and forth from school every few months for several years now, he was quite bored with the long trip through space, and was equally bored with the thought of doing his homework to occupy himself. 

He stares at the same stars he always sees, and just lets his mind wander.

Each year he feels like the visit home is becoming more and more of a hassle for his parents… Maybe he just won’t go home anymore, so that his return doesn’t always put them out.  Home isn’t really home anyways.

The dreary planet below, some agrarian backwater baby-Earth named QiiQ, catches Caleb’s eye as the train slowly travels past.   They still haven’t been connected to the interstellar routes, leaving anyone on the planet to be stuck where they are for their entire lives.

Caleb tries to picture what life would be like down there… how his point of view would be different if he was raised there and not on Earth, how his mindset just wouldn’t be the same.  It looks like nothing but swamps and sadness from up here… the idea of being STUCK there is hard to fathom for him.

He feels sad for the QiiQians, but he also feels like he’s just saying that to himself because he’s supposed to.  He doesn’t really care.

A frantic looking tourist with too many bags comes down the aisle towards Caleb, hungrily eying the open seat next to him.  Caleb looks away quickly so as not to seem as if he is inviting the company…

Thankfully they keep walking past, and Caleb let’s out a quiet relieved sigh.  He’s just not in the mood for forced conversation with a stranger, and they definitely looked like a talker.

While having someone to talk to would’ve given him something to do, Caleb knows he much prefers complaining to himself about being dreadfully bored rather than complaining to himself about having to talk to someone.

Cursing himself for not bringing a book (he told himself that if he brought a book he wouldn’t do his homework but he should know himself well enough to know that he wasn’t going to do the homework either way), Caleb will spend the rest of the trip unsuccessfully trying to nap.

Posted 6/12/2012

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“Science is Awesome”

Young Beth Miller runs to the top of the hill and gazes up to the heavens… it’s the perfect moment, just as the sun has disappeared over the horizon, leaving the exact right amount of light to see the giant space station orbiting the moon with the naked eye.

The basic elements of life ooze and spread across the moon’s surface, as the top scientists of the day work from the space station on The Massive Terraformation Project— terraforming the entire moon, making it fit to grow and support life.

Right now it’s just a swirling sea of microbes, bacteria, water, volatile gasses, and more… all mixing together on the largest petri dish since Earth itself.  Slowly, but steadily, the once completely dead hunk of rock is being born anew as an atmosphere begins to develop and the most primitive forms of life take shape.

Soon, the moon will be a veritable paradise of natural resources for humankind to mine and harvest, hopefully helping solve our ever-worsening energy problems. 

Beth wonders about what affect this all will have on the moon’s gravitational pull and it’s relationship with Earth’s orbit… she wonders about the possible moral or ethical concerns that might be raised by being able to create life out of basically nothing… and she wonders what unpredicted consequences could come from this project— what new and fantastical species will evolve on the moon?  She just doesn’t know the answers to these questions, and she’s not sure if anyone does.

All she does know, as she watches one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in human history take place before her eyes, is that science is awesome.

Posted 1/29/2012

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